Weak Armor くだけるよろい
Broken Armor
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Generation V
Physical attacks lower Defense and raise Speed.
Generation VI
Physical attacks lower its Defense stat and raise its Speed stat.
Generation VII
Physical attacks to the Pokémon lower its Defense stat but sharply raise its Speed stat.
Generation VIII
Physical attacks to the Pokémon lower its Defense stat but sharply raise its Speed stat.
Generation IX
The Pokémon's Defense stat is lowered when it takes damage from physical moves, but its Speed stat is sharply boosted.
Champions
When the Pokémon takes damage from a physical move, its Defense stat is lowered by 1 stage, but its Speed stat is boosted by 2 stages.
Weak Armor (Japanese: くだけるよろい Broken Armor ) is an Ability introduced in Generation V .
Effect In battle Generations V and VI When a Pokémon with this Ability is hit by a physical move , its Defense is decreased by one stage and its Speed is increased by one stage.
If a Pokémon with this Ability is hit by a physical multistrike move (such as Fury Swipes ), each hit activates this Ability.
Generation VII onwards Weak Armor now raises Speed by two stages.
Outside of battle Weak Armor has no effect outside of battle.
Pokémon with Weak Armor In other games Description
Games
Description
MD GtI When the Pokémon is hit by a physical move, its Defense goes down, but its Travel Speed rises.* *
S MD When it's hit by a physical move, the Pokémon's Defense goes down and its Travel Speed goes up!
In animation Pokémon animated series
Ceruledge
The Pokémon's armor shatters when it takes damage from physical moves, but its speed is sharply boosted.
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Notes
When Ceruledge is hit by a physical move, the outer layer of its armor briefly glows purple and then shatters. A red glow then shoots up around Ceruledge's body, boosting its speed.
Amethio's Ceruledge Charge! Galar Mine! Debut
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